INTERESTING STUFF

AN ILLUSTRATED
CATALOG
OF INTERESTING OR HISTORIC WORLD COINS AND CURRENCY

This
Interesting Stuff Catalog includes hundreds of
interesting,
historic and unusual items. Included are world coins, currency, tokens
and
medals, from ancient times to the present. It emphasizes "the
story
behind the coin or note".

As
we stock most items in
quantity,
the pictures are of a typical representational piece taken from stock.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ALPHABETICAL
INDEX TO THIS CATALOG
The Index includes the coins, notes and other items in this
Interesting
Stuff
catalog and is sorted by country or area. It provides a brief
description
of the item, and a link to the page that lists the item

RECENT
ISSUES
New coin issuing nations and new issues from around the world.

THE
EURO
Coins and coin sets of the Euro member nations,
incuding the 2
Euro
commemorative coins.

COINS
OF
MICRO-NATIONS
Coins of the Micro-nations, cinderellas, coins of
tradition, unauthorized issues, unofficial issues, unrecognized states
and places that do not even exist.
Includes Sealand,
Atlantis, Maui, Tribal coins of Africa and
other places that are very difficult to locate on a map.

ARUCANIA-PATAGONIA
COINS
Ultra-rare
coins of tradition from a country that no longer exists. Most
have mintages of a few hundred or less, some have mintages of less than
10.

COINS
THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN
Hand struck fantasy coins of North America, including Viking
issues
of
Vinland and coins for French settlements in North America. These are
unusual modern
creations
of
historical coins that never actually were issued.

NATIONS
OF THE FORMER SOVIET UNION
A selection of coins
from nations
that emerged after the collapse of
the
Soviet Union including Armenia, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Georgia,
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Nagarno-Karabakh,
Tajikistan, Transdniestra, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.

INTRODUCTION

This is an expanded on-line version of our popular Illustrated
Catalog
of
World Coins and Currency. Taking advantage of the
capabilities
of the World Wide Web, we are able to offer a much larger selection
than will
fit in our regular printed catalog, including new items as they become
available
as well as limited stock items that would not otherwise be worthwhile
to
list.

In our illustrated catalog we emphasize the romance,
history
and
social
significance of the coins. Included are a wide variety of moderately
priced
items, including ancient to modern world coins, paper money, primitive
money,
tokens, medals and related items, most of which are pictured. We hope
you
enjoy perusing our offerings. Please e-mail us at orders@joelscoins.com
if you
have
any questions or comments, or would like the latest "paper" version of
this
catalog.

Some notes to
help you
use this on-line catalog

From the Table of Contents you may click on the
section of
the
catalog
you wish to view. I avoid the use of frames as it crowds the
screen
too much.

Within a section you may click on outlined images
for an
enlargement
so to better see the detail.

Images are taken from actual items in stock and
are typical
of
the
item you would get. It is unlikely you would get the exact
coin
or
note pictured.

To Order you may cut and paste the description
line into an
e-mail,
or you can just type out the the item number and/or
description. Orders
are filled by humans, rather than computers, so we the exact format is
not
important. (One of these days we will get on-line ordering, but we can
only
handle one thing at a time.)

There is a lot of material here, you may
want to
order a
few
things now, bookmark this page, then come back and read more of the
catalog
later.

Unless otherwise indicated, most items are
designed to be
shown
actual
size when you print the catalog. Depending on the
monitor
you
are using however, items may look bigger or
smaller. In
order
to give you a idea of the actual size on your monitor I have included
the
following scale to judge by.